Passed Acts; St. 1861, c.91, SC1/series 229, Petition of Theodore P. Hale

Petition subject: For the repeal of the personal liberty laws Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10668921 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Massachusetts Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Lucius Slade, Suffolk; committee on the personal liberty laws Selected signatures:Theodore P. HaleEben. D. JordanCharles W. Smith Actions taken on dates: 1861-01-28,1861-01-29 Legislative action: Received in the Senate on January 28, 1861 and referred to the committee on the personal liberty laws and received in the House on January 29, 1861 and concurred Total signatures: 1833 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1833 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: legal voters, ["others"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: Four texts with 1 from Boston and 1 from Waltham Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1861, c.91, passed March 25, 1861 Acknowledgements: Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-5105612), Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University, Institutional Development Initiative at Harvard University, and Harvard University Library.